Madhu Khanna
Professor
University of Illinois
USA
Biography
Dr. Madhu Khanna is the ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She was selected as a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, a University of Illinois Scholar, a Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Woods Institute at Stanford University and received the Paul A. Funk recognition from the College of ACES. She serves on the Science Advisory Board of the USEPA and is currently the editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Research Interest
Her research examines the incentives for clean technology adoption, the economic and environmental effects of biofuels and the effectiveness of environmental policies. She uses welfare economics to examine the costs and benefits of energy and environmental policies and the design of policy incentives that can achieve environmental targets cost-effectively.